Guide for bombs



GOODSPEED & CRAWLEY.

Bomb Lance.

Patented July 16, 1861 a/JA UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

I. GOODSPEED AND C. CRAWLEY, OF NORWICH, CONNECTICUT.

GUIDE FOR BOMBS, LANCES, AND OTHER PROJECTILES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 32,830. dated July 16, 1861.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ISAAC GOODSPEED and CHARLES CRAWLEY, both of Norwich, New London county, State of Connecticut, have invented a new and improved guide for guiding bombs, lances, or any other longitudinal instrument or projectile in its course through air or water when thrown from a gun or by any other means, of which the following is a specification.

The above guide consists of a metal sheath or cylinder covering the rear end of the instrumcnt or its fuse-shaft, which forms an airchamber which lightens the rear and still keeps a uniform size, and forms a guide on the mon'ientum principle; also, the guide consists of covering the fuse shaft or rear end of the instrument with cork, which has the same efl'eetas the metal sheath. (See drawings, which make part of this specification.)

Figure l is an external view oi an instrument with guide attached and finished.

Fig. 2 is an open view of an instrument to be guided inclosed in a metal sheath or cylinder, (marked A,) forming the ainchainber I); c, instrument inclosed in the sheath or cylinder.

Fig. 3 is an'open view of an instrument covered with cork or light wood. 1) represents the cork or wood covering; a, the instrument incloscd.

Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section, showing the fuse-shaft and the body of an instrument.

Fig. 5 is a transverse section of Fig. 2. a, metal sheath or cylinder; 1), air-chamber; c, fuse-shaft.

Fig. 6 is a transverse section of Fig. 3. b, cork covering; 0, fuse-shaft.

Ne claim- 1. The application of the metal sheath or cylinder as a guide to bombs, lances, or any other longitudinal instrument, as set forth in the above specification as our invention.

2. The application of cork as a guide to bombs, lances, or any other longitudinal instrument or projectile, as set forth in the above specification as our invention.

3. The application of the metal sheath or cylinder and the cork combined by covering the cork with the cylinder as a guide to bombs, lanccs, or any other instrument, as set forth in the above specification as our invention.

ISAAC GOCDSPEED. CHARLES CRAVVLEY. Witnesses SARAH G. ALLEN, STEPHEN ALLEN. 

